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Infor LX & BPCS Tip: Inventory Stocking Levels – Warehouses, Locations and Lots…Oh My!

The Infor LX system supports 4 levels of inventory. You can view summaries of stock at each level through the Material Status Inquiry program or through reports. Below are the 4 levels:

  • Item
  • Item + warehouse
  • Item + warehouse + location
  • Item + warehouse + location + lot

The lot number level and/or container of inventory can cross multiple warehouses and locations, for example, item + lot or item + lot + container. Locations exist within warehouses. There is no limit on the number of warehouses, locations, or lots that you can assign to an item.

Multiple Warehouses
You can assign as many warehouses as needed for any item. You can designate each warehouse as allocatable, allowed for order processing, or non-MRP, not used in the MRP netting logic. This allows your business to set up staging areas and quarantined warehouses. The warehouses can be physical or logical warehouses.

Multiple Locations
You can assign as many inventory locations as needed for any item. The location number is six characters long. This allows you to define sub-locations within a location, which can be an aisle, bin, or row.

The system stores item-warehouse combination inventory and allocation data. Optionally, sales history is available by item and warehouse in sales by units for the past twelve months. Total monetary amounts of sales by warehouse are also available in year-to-date, the last twelve months individually, and previous year-to-date.

Lot Inventory
On an item-by-item basis, the system requires the input of and performs tracking of lot numbers by inventory transaction. The system supports forward and backward lot traceability. The system provides inquiries and reports for the stock, allocation, and movement of inventory by lot. The system also automatically supports shelf life, expiration date, and reject data for each lot. The system automatically uses the expiration date in this allocation logic and MRP logic.

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Tips:  LX | BPCS | M3

Role-Based Security introduces Role type profiles and allows combining the use of Role profiles with the traditional LX User type security profile functionality. The new Role type profile can be defined to allow or deny access to All Products, Attention Key, Products, Programs, and Transaction Effects. Facility, Warehouse, and Company securities are still defined solely by the User profile settings and are not affected by the assignment of a Role. Where applicable, the Role authority is displayed alongside the User authority on the security profile maintenance screens making it easy to see where there are differences in authority between the User and the assigned Roles. 

When Users are assigned to Roles, security access in LX becomes a combination of authorities granted or denied by the Role, plus any User Exceptions. User Exceptions override authorities set by the Roles. A User can also be assigned to more than one Role.

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What is it?
The configurator consists of a set of features (questions). The options (answers) to these questions are used to generate the custom bill of material and routing. These questions may be answered at the time of order entry, prior to order entry (in a project or quote) or after order entry (in the project). The order of the questions do not need to have any relationship to the bill of materials. The configurator may also calculate the selling price, create a unique “smart” item number, custom description and text. Simple rules are used to interpret the answers.

Who uses the configurator?
Companies whose products have options. The configurator eliminates the need for part numbers for all combinations of options. The configurator ensures that the pricing and bills are correct. The configurator also keeps statistics on the frequency the options are selected.

In Baan IV, the order balance amount always includes the tax amount. Consequently, the tax amount must be recalculated every time an order line is modified in order to update the balance correctly. If the tax provider is activated, this requires an API call for every re-calculation of tax.

In Infor LN, users can select or clear the new Include Tax in Order Balance check box in the COM Parameters (tccom0000s000) session to indicate whether users want to include tax amounts in the order balance amount. This parameter has an effect on various sessions in Order Management.

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